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#142
  • In the year 2000, artist Glenda León (Havana, 1976) left small frozen flowers inside ice cubes upon the tables of a bar.

  • Monumental sculptures of iconic New York buildings to emerge along the Park Avenue Malls in artist’s inaugural NYC public art exhibition

  • Over the course of art history, artists aligned with different trends have shown a fascination with maps.

  • On an unseasonably warm fall day in October, on a Friday afternoon, I am at Y Gallery, where I am to meet Alberto Borea (b. 1979, Lima, Peru) to tour his second solo exhibition in New York titled “Because of Construction.

  • I’ve been teaching, on and off, for about fifteen years, and frequenting art schools and university art departments as a visiting critic or the like for a good deal longer than that.

  • For one of his most recent works, entitled O levante (The Uprising), 2012 − the brute material for which is still in the process of being structured in order to provide it with a definitive format − Jonathas de Andrade organized the 1st Horse-drawn Cart Race in the center of Recife, where he lives.

  • The Future was ceaselessly

    Revisiting the paths followed by the speculative variability that has gradually shaped the ever-ongoing work of Julieta Aranda, I can anticipate that we would be lost in simplifications and end up misunderstanding her movement and her drive if we intended to inscribe this work into a moment, or tried to approach it as if it were an arrow that we could immobilize in the middle of its flight.

Museum Exhibitions

Mexico City’s Tamayo Museum inaugurated the exhibition “Juan Downey| A Communication Utopia”, curated by Julieta González.

Interview

Gabriel Pérez-Barreiro: Guy, you have worked primarily as an art critic, but you have also curated several very important exhibitions. Many people think these two activities are somewhat incompatible, and there are few cases like yours. How do you approach this crossover, and what makes you decide to curate an exhibition rather than, say, writing an essay about the same artists?

Featured video

What is (Latin American) Art, anyway?: Dr Joanne Harwood, Dr Rebecca Breen and Ana Bilbao Yarto

News

Manuel Álvarez

Berenice Arvani Gallery announces the death on June 6, 2013, of the Argentine visual artist Manuel Álvarez.

“El Atlas del Imperio” (The Atlas of the Empire) the exhibition presented for the Latin American Pavilion of the Istituto Italo-Latinoamericano (IILA), inside the venue of Isolotto dell'Arsenale, was organized by Sylvia Irrazábal, IILA´s commissioner, with Alfons Hug as curator and Paz Guevara as co-curator.

La Bienal 2013, El Museo del Barrio’s 7th biennial exhibition, inaugurated on June 12, features work by 37 emerging Latino and Latin American artists, from newly-minted to mid-career, who live and work in New York City metropolitan area.

Reviews

Sala TAC Centro Cultural Trasnocho, Caracas

In 2006, the photographer Antolín Sánchez made a documentary film on the work of Luis Brito (Venezuela, Edo. Sucre, 1945).

Jorge Miño (Argentina, 1973) constructs beautiful and solitary architectonic landscapes that induce fantasy, while at the same time they retain a rare balance.

Centro Atlántico de Arte Moderno-San Antonio Abad, Las Palmas de Gran Canaria

Fabián Marcaccio (Rosario, Argentina, 1963) has deservedly established himself as one of the most evident renovators of the Latin American pictorial language.


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